Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2006
Publication Title
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
Publisher
UNLV: Center for Democratic Culture Publications
First page number:
1
Last page number:
18
Abstract
For many years, it was moral experts, rather than medical and academic ones, who told us who gambled “too much.” Speaking from pulpits rather than podiums, church leaders informed us that gambling was uniquely subversive of the American way of life, for its something-for-nothing promise threatened to undermine the popular ethic of honest toil and gradual accumulation of goods. Samuel Hopkins, in an 1835 sermon on “The Evils of Gambling,” captured this sensibility: “Let the gambler know that he is watched, and marked; and that . . . he is loathed. Let the man who dares to furnish a resort for the gambler know that he is counted a traitor to his duty, a murderer of all that is fair, and precious, and beloved among us” (Hopkins, 1835:17-18).
Keywords
Compulsive gambling--Research; Compulsive gambling--Treatment; Gambling--U.S. states
Disciplines
Community-Based Research | Immune System Diseases | Medicine and Health | Sociology | Virus Diseases
Language
English
Repository Citation
Bernhard, B.
(2006).
Problem Gambling and Treatment in Nevada. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
1-18.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/social_health_nevada_reports/10
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